Geraint Lewis

Archive
30 January 2014

Care.data helpline receives 3,500 calls

The helpline set up to provide patients with information about care.data received nearly 3,500 calls in its first three weeks.
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30 January 2014

Care.data: a row waiting to happen

EHI news editor Rebecca Todd takes a look back at the creation of the care.data programme and the concerns many
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
16 October 2013

Ā£1m national leaflet drop on care.data

The government will spend Ā£1m sending a patient information leaflet about the controversial care.data programme to every household in England.
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
4 October 2013

Care.data extractions on hold

Extractions of GP data for care.data have been halted while issues around patient awareness of the scheme are resolved.
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1 October 2013

Another view

GP Neil Paul is just getting to grips with NHS Englandā€™s plans for care.data ā€“ and heā€™s worried about them.
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5 August 2013

Dates with destiny

The NHS has been set so many IT and information targets over the past couple of years that EHI is
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
22 July 2013

Health data access for just Ā£1

NHS England wants to reduce the cost for researchers to access expanded healthcare datasets from around Ā£30,000 to Ā£1.
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22 July 2013

EPRs essential for HES expansion plans

Hospitals will need electronic patient record systems to meet NHS Englandā€™s ā€œambitiousā€ plans for extracting a significantly expanded hospital dataset
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13 November 2012

NHS CB finds info bosses outside NHS

Further appointments to the NHS Commissioning Boardā€™s patients and information directorate have been made, drawing heavily on the private sector.
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